Education Haiti Project #11102

Textbooks Needed for 500 School Children in Haiti

by Partners for Haitian Children

Project Report | Dec 9, 2013
Textbook Project Underpins 500 Haitian Children's Learning

By Monique P. Garrity | Project Leader

Emmanuella, a forme " restavec", now a 4th grader

On October 7, 2013, the teachers and 500 students in grades 1-6 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Petite-Riviere de l' Artibonite returned to the classroom. As reported previously, the project which made key textbooks in reading, grammar and mathematics available to all the children had a huge impact last year on the learning environment.

One of the beneficiairies of the Project is Emmanuella who now has a chance to realize her educational potential. She is a former "restavec" or child-slave who was abused physically and had only one year of formal education prior to starting at the school in 2011. She was then 10 years old and put in second grade. She is smart and talented, works hard and has adjusted extremely well at the school. Now whe is a thirteen-year-old 4th grader at the school.

We thank you for giving a chance to many disadvantaged children like Emmanuella to pursue their education and make a difference for their families, communities and their native Haiti. The gains realized would have been impossible without your personal commitment and financial support.We are deeply grateful to each and every one of you for your kindness and generosity. We are pleased to let you know that the sustainability of the program is expected to be ensured through recycling and affordable rental fees for the books as well as occasional external support.

In view of the above, we are deactivating this project and hereby solicit your support for our high priority new Global Giving Project—http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/head/-start-for-230-pre-school-children-in-haiti. The Head Start project for 230 pre-school children who live in a harsh environment of pervasive poverty aims at ensuring that they are better prepared to fully benefit from a primary school curriculum. The project supports teachers’ training, hiring of teachers’ aides and pedagogical materials to further the children’s physical, cognitive and social development.
Please help these children get a high quality early childhood education. We thank you for your continued partnership.

Links:

New PHC GlobalGiving pre-school education project

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Sep 9, 2013
Textbooks Enhance Learning: School Year 2012-2013

By Monique P. Garrity, Founder & Executive Director | Project Leader

In her end -of- year report, Sister Christiane, Principal of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Haiti’s Artibonite Region, writes that this past year was unlike any other,largely on account of the positive impact that the provision of textbooks to each and every child had on the teaching environment. The teachers reported that the children were generally more attentive and interactive in class. Sister considers the GlobalGiving-enabled initiative a revolutionary
development!

The 6th grade students who took the end- of- year national exam, a requirement for proceeding to the middle school level ,had a 94% passing rate. This compares to a national passing rate of about 65%. On the other hand, the 2012-2013 in-school passing rate for students in grades 1-5, was only 73% - - underscoring the magnitude of the challenges that remain to be met. These include, interalia, overcrowded classrooms, poorly paid and insufficiently trained teachers,as well as quite a number of malnourished children.

The majority of the books made available through the project will be recycled for the new school year scheduled to start on October 1, 2013 (a month later than usual). The only exception, as indicated in our previous report, is for students in grades 1-2 whose books cannot be used again because they had to write in the texts. Alternative arrangements have been made for books for students in these two grades for this year. With our objective of providing text books to all pupils in grades 1-6 achieved, we are hereby closing the project
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/textbooks-for-500-haitian-children/
Dear donors, your support made possible what happened in the classrooms this year at the School of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. We send you our heartfelt thanks. You made possible the learning achievements highlighted above. We are now officially closing this project.

We now have a new GlobalGiving project – http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/head-start-for-230-pre-school-children-in-haiti/-- for improving early childhood education at our school. The project will support teacher training, hiring of teachers’ aides, and pedagogical materials to further the children’s physical, cognitive
and social development.

We hope that you will stay with us and support this project which aims at building the foundation for
lifelong learning and well-being for these 230 children, most of whom live in extreme poverty. A quality early childhood education is an excellent preventive measure which supports breaking of the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Thank you for your continued partnership. MESI ANPIL!

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May 28, 2013
Textbooks make big difference to learning!

By Monique P Garrity; Sister Christiane Medidor | Project Leader ; Principal Haitian School

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